Second semester: start.

A bit to recap:

After a little over two weeks of vacation, started one of my new classes today. And for those of you wondering what exactly I did during this vacation, I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you by saying that aside from babysitting, all I basically did was stay inside and cower from the cold. However, in my last post I mentioned that I wanted to make my vacation productive, and that I still managed to kind of do. Ok, I didn't review as much as I would have liked *coughmeaningmorethantwonightscoughcough* but apparently that wasn't as detrimental as I thought it would be..more on that later in a later post.

For the past couple of weeks, Alejandro and I had been e-mailing and e-mailing countless people renting out apartments. It got to the point where we realized we weren't going to be able to snag a two-bedroom, but Alejandro volunteered to take the living room in the case of a 1-bedroom. Really, très gentil. After who knows how long (ok, a couple weeks) of scouring Craigslist, Fusac, and a few agency sites (a last resort) Alejandro came across an ad for a place on some website I'd never heard of but that had been recommended by a French friend. He e-mailed the renter and before we knew it, we had an appointment to go visit the place. At this point, I'd expected to only find a place that fit within our budget outside of city limits, but while this place is closer to the suburbs, it's only a few stops away from where I live right now.

Well off we went one morning, finding the place easily thanks to Google Maps and Streetview (seriously though, how did people live before the internet???) We called the renter to let them know we were just a few minutes away and were surprised to find it was actually a woman. Up until then we'd communicated by e-mail only..it was funny that we hadn't considered this possibility because she hadn't given her first name and had never indicated her gender.
Anyways, we got to the place, which is a 2 minute walk from the nearest metro, and only had to climb (thank god!) 3 flights of stairs to the top floor where the apartment was situated. I'm going to try and keep this from getting terribly long, so in short, we liked the lady, liked the apartment and discussed possible move in dates if we were chosen to rent it (there were other candidates for such a good place, of course). Then a few days later, the renter (herein known as Laurene) e-mailed us and let us know that if we were still interested, she was offering the place to us. I couldn't believe our luck. Shortly after that we pooled together our monetary resources (following a scare concerning my funds..or lack thereof) met her again, paid half, signed the contract, and got a key (second one is being made).
So.
YAY WE FOUND OUR PLACE!!


AND IT EVEN HAS A WASHER...DOUBLE YAY IS IN ORDER, NO?
I think so.

Anywho. The place is great but again, will refrain from going too much into detail tonight. We move in March 1st, which is a school day for me, but I'll just work around that somehow. But in the mean time, it's time to get back to reality, do my homework that I've already been assigned and get to bed. I do believe I have 6 hours of class tomorrow...better than 7, but still not cool :(

Tootles,
Rachael